West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1887-10-14
AGRICULTURAL.

Last year the butter exports OF
Italy amounted to 81, 100000. AMI
yet Italy is not considered much OF
a dairy country.
In hot weather cream should he
stirred a little every day to prevent
the putrifactive mold which soon
sets in if kept quiet. 1t is for this
reason much more difficult to make
good butter with one cow than with
two or three with which churning
has to be done often. The cream
kept long loses some of its butter, as
it is eaten out by acid.
Flies do not bite so viciously in
the dark, and the eagerness with
which a cow will rush in the shade
of tree on a hot day shows how
she appreciates this fact. During
the very hottest weather, Keeping
the COW in darkened stable is not
only humane, but good policy rs
we'll. 1t is altogether the cheapest
and easiest mode of increasing the
milk supply.
There are some kinds of farm pro.
ducts which can at times be held to
advantage when markets are low.
but this is seldom the case with live
stock. A consignment of animals
ready for the block can often be
kept on the farm for a'few weeks
with profit; but great risk is in
Cured when an attempt is made Ia
hold from season to season. Feed
ers generally aim to have their ami
mails ready for sale at a fixed time,
and in a great majority OF cases it
is best to let them go at that time.
There is more or less Of the specu
lative idea in holding anything oil
the market for which it is ready;
and when this holding is attended
by the expense of additional feeding,
market changes must be very COL
siderable to financially justify such
step. This is well illustrated by
the cattle business of the past three
or four months. Notwithstanding
the markets have been very full dn-
ring all of that time, large numbers
of cattle intended to be sold in the
spring or early summer have been
held back until now in the hope OF =
strong advance. Prices for choice
cattle are somewhat better at this
writing than they were a few weeks
ago, yet the very fact of great deal
Of stock being kept back for an al
vance has without doubt kept the
improvement from being as great .s
it would otherwise have been.-Na
tiOnM StockmaR and Farmer.
The terms Durham and Shorthorn.
when used in connection with cattlc.
have reference to one and the sarc
breed. The Shorthorn is prc-em.-
nent for its general-utility qualtie
When the object is beef it can be-
grown for that with the create
success, and on the other hand, SOM
of the most famous mixers have been
.,horthorns. The Shorthorn is among
cattle what the Anglo-Saxon is
among mem wherever it goes,it holes
its own with credit. 1t will be secu
from this that the word breed is n0.
the proper one to use in making the
distinction which our correspondent
has in mind; the word Strain is be.
ter. Good usage makes il the cor
rect thing to refer to the milking ~
opposed TO the special bcef-produc.
ing strains of Shorthorns. In tii'
days of Thomas Batcs--onc Of the
greatest of all Shorthorn breeders
milk and butter were mnch MOI
thought of in connection with Dur.
ham cattle than they are at thi,
present time. Now, in this country
especially. the fight for the Short
horn has been made principally
along the beef lines; even under thee
circumstances the milk faction ut
anlrequently asserts itself, SO that
here and there one hears of herds Of
Sborthorns that pay their way in
regular dairy service.